Author: Belinda Clarke

Shadan Kapri (MSJ16)

“Discovering Your Passion: The Path to Your Authentic Life,” is written for all of those who don’t fit the mold, to the dreamers and the nonconformists, the ones who never truly fit in but were born to stand out. This is for you. The truth is that we live in a world that is constantly telling us who to be, how to dress, and how to act from the moment we are born. We are sent messages of what is acceptable and appropriate, but as we get older, we realize that the old rules of how to act or what to do with our lives may not align with who we really are inside.

Each of us is unique and original in so many ways. It’s our greatest asset. Yet, we often lose sight of this. This book is for the person who wants to find their purpose and passion in life. It doesn’t exist by living inside a cubicle or checking off an arbitrary list of society’s expectations. It is found by going within yourself and searching for your answers, searching for your truth.

What seems different is actually the world’s way of giving us unique, independent voices. Each voice can and does move us forward. Each of us has the ability to change lives, but first we have to stop believing the simple lie that to be accepted we have to be like everyone else.

“Discovering Your Passion: The Path to Your Authentic Life,” helps people find their unique voice, their passions, and dreams in life. It provides guidance with journaling and questions that help people find their truth. Not the truth the media tells us. The truth that is in your heart. For real failure is failing to sing that song or tell that story that you were sent here to tell. May this book help you on the path to finding your place in the world. The world needs you now more than ever.

Ari Berman (BSJ04)

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power—and the movement to stop them.

The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn’t begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.

Ian Douglass (MSJ06)

In this 440-page sequel, Ian Douglass (MSJ06) works with Steve Keirn to tell the story about his mainstream return to wrestling, the creation of the Professional Wrestling Federation, and his stint in the World Wrestling Federation as the alligator hunter Skinner and the evil wrestling clown Doink. From there, Steve’s life progresses through a series of ups and downs that eventually sees him founding a wrestling school, starting an iill-fated independent wrestling company, and eventually becoming the head trainer who oversaw the most successful era of homegrown talent creation under the World Wrestling Entertainment banner.

Steve Reddicliffe (BSJ75)

Steve Reddicliffe of Glen Arbor, Mich., is the editor of the new edition of The New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails, with recipes and stories from more than 100 years of the paper’s drinks coverage. The more than 400 recipes include Martinis and Manhattans; Bloody Marys and Bellinis; and nightcaps, Negronis and non-alcoholic cocktails, from such writers as Robert Simonson, Rosie Schaap, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Pete Wells, Melissa Clark, Rebekah Peppler and Mark Bittman. Reddicliffe, who wrote The Quiet Drink column for The Times, served as the deputy editor for the paper’s international edition, deputy travel editor, and television editor.